With 100% English Ancestry, I thought it might be really difficult to trace my ancestors back in England from Canada. Only my mother, her father and his mother were born in Canada. This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.

1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer